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Molecular evolution and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient.
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- Distinct latitudinal patterns of molecular rates across vertebrates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Genomic estimates of mutation and substitution rates contradict the evolutionary speed hypothesis of the latitudinal diversity gradient.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Fatty acid metabolism decreased while sexual selection increased in brown rats spreading south.iScience · 2023Article
- Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Review
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- Global topographic uplift has elevated speciation in mammals and birds over the last 3 million years.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Article
- Ecological and evolutionary constraints on regional avifauna of passerines in China.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Genome-wide DNA mutations in Arabidopsis plants after multigenerational exposure to high temperatures.Genome biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Species density is higher in the tropics (low latitude) than in temperate regions (high latitude) resulting in a latitudinal biodiversity gradient (LBG). The LBG must be generated by differential rates of speciation and/or extinction and/or immigration among regions, but the role of each of these processes is still unclear. Recent studies examining differences in rates of molecular evolution have inferred a direct link between rate of molecular evolution and rate of speciation, and postulated these as important drivers of the LBG. Here we review the molecular genetic evidence and examine the factors that might be responsible for differences in rates of molecular evolution. Critical to this is the directionality of the relationship between speciation rates and rates of molecular evolution.
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